National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1418

Overview

The stateless address autoconfiguration (aka SLAAC) functionality in the IPv6 networking implementation in Apple iOS before 4.3 and Apple TV before 4.2 places the MAC address into the IPv6 address, which makes it easier for remote IPv6 servers to track users by logging source IPv6 addresses.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4565

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4565

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4564

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4564

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2011-03-09-3

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00005.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2011-03-09-1

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00003.html